Wetszone.com, Brunei's first and only legal online music store, in collaboration with Midas Productions and Sistic is giving its members a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Robbie Williams live in concert.

One lucky winner will receive a pair of tickets to see his concert in Singapore on November 18, 2006. All one has to do is download any song from Wetszone.com's online music store from now till the end of September.
The more songs one downloads means the more chances they will actually get to win. Each song download is B$2.40.

Over 500,000 songs have been made available from three major recording labels, namely Sony Music, BMG Entertainment and Warner Music as well as 40independent labels ranging from USA, UK, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Those who wish to download songs from Wetszone.com's music store would have to purchase a pink point card (available in B$9 and B$21) from any authorised vendor.
They can then log on to wetszone.com and key in the serial numbers on the card. b.mobile users can also access Wetszone.com's music store from b.world portal and direct to their phones for their listening pleasure.
Those who are not Wetszone members can register online at http://wetszone.com for free.

The winner of the Robbie Williams' concert tickets will be announced the first week of October through Wetszone.com as well as local print media.

Source: http://www.wetszone.com/

VH1 Will Telecast 'The 2006 UK Music Hall of Fame'
Saturday November 25 9:00 PM VH1 Classic Will Air an Extended Version of Ceremony
Friday November 24 8:00 PM2006


UK Music Hall Of Fame premieres on VH1 as a two-hour extravaganza on Saturday November 25th 9:00p.m.* Prince joined the inductees for this year's event -- Brian Wilson,Dusty Springfield, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi and James Brown in astar-studded evening full of musical legends. These seven joined Sir GeorgeMartin who received this year's Honorary Membership in recognition of hisexceptional contribution to British music.


The "2006 UK Music Hall of Fame" took place at the famed AlexandraPalace in London on November 14th and included a rare public appearance by Led Zeppelin, founding member and 'guitar god' Jimmy Page and performances by inductee Brian Wilson and his band; British soul sensation Joss Stone and R&B legend Patti LaBelle who paid tribute to Dusty Springfield; a supergroup tribute to the Beatles conducted by Sir George Martin which featured Queen's Roger Taylor, Johnny Borrell of Razorlight, Swedish singer/songwriter Jose Gonzales and Corinne Baily Rae. Finally, Wolfmother performed a tribute to Led Zeppelin and James Morrison performed tribute to Rod Stewart.

VH1 Classic will premiere an unexpurgated, extended version ceremony onFriday, November 24 at 8:00 p.m.

VH1 Classic viewers will witness a showfull of extras, brimming with amazing performances and tributes too huge tobe missed.

On November 11, 2004 music history was made with the inaugural ceremonyof The UK Music Hall of Fame.

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, BobMarley, Elvis Presley, Queen, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The RollingStones, U2 and Robbie Williams were the first artists to enter the UK MusicHall of Fame and Chris Blackwell (the founder of Island Records) was given the Honorary Membership for services to the music industry.

*All times ET/PT

Contacts: At VH1:
Michelle Clark, 212-846-5576 /
michelle.clark@vh1staff.com (michelle.clark@vh1staff.com)

At initial: Charlie Gardner, 020 8222 4116 charlie.gardner@endemoluk.com (charlie.gardner@endemoluk.com)

At Channel 4: Loretta de Souza, 020 7306 8179, ldesouza@channel4.co.uk (ldesouza@channel4.co.uk)

Inductees are chosen by a highly select group of entertainment industry professionals. Since its launch in 2004, the UK Music Hall of Fame has inducted 20 ofthe greatest names in music history including The Beatles, The RollingStones, Madonna, Bob Dylan, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, U2, BobMarley, Elvis Presley and The Kinks.

Artists are selected for induction by the UK Music Hall of Fame Steering Group -- a panel comprising over 60 respected artists, music journalists, broadcasters and music industry executives.

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Its credits include Fashion Rocks (Channel 4);
Orange Playlist (ITV1; VH1;TMF);
Band Aid 20;
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BBC ONE);
JohnLennon's Juke Box (The South Bank Show, ITV1);
Harry Potter at The Castle(ITV1);
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy (BBC ONE; BBC THREE);
OrangePlaylist (ITV1);
The Real Mary Poppins: A South Bank Show Special (ITV1)

and the music led drama series for Channel 4 - Totally Frank.

http://www.VH1.com (http://www.vh1.com/).

Loneliest number
December 22, 2006

For every hit there are misses.
Andrew Murfett sifts the stacks.

THE humble single has tried on a few jackets over the years - vinyl, compact cassette, CD and download - and it still plays a pivotal role in the cutthroat game of music marketing. There is no better way to launch an artist or album, lure new fans or connect with old followers.

Which singles were worth a listen in 2006? Here's a round-up.

The year's best single, Crazy, by Gnarls Barkley, came out of nowhere as the sole, unarguable claimant to instant classic status. It was familiar, but like nothing else on radio.

Augie March produced the Australian single of the year, One Crowded Hour. The Midnight Juggernauts released the country's funkiest single: Shadows.

Natalie Maines' remarkable performance on the Dixie Chicks' Not Ready to Make Nice elevated it to one of the year's finest.

In the typically bizarre world of pop '06, the Mickey Mouse Club alumni - with the exception of Britney - had a strong year. Justin Timberlake backed up SexyBack with My Love, while Christina Aguilera's bold but patchy double album included one knockout: Ain't No Other Man.

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson warred in the tabloids and on the charts, both releasing bland singles, and Paris Hilton made her debut with a Blondie-channelling Stars Are Blind. Unlike her, it rapidly faded from sight. Lovelight was the only faintly listenable song on superstar Robbie Williams' super-dud album.

Towering Jamaican Rihanna annexed the hook from Soft Cell's Tainted Love and emerged with one of the biggest number ones of the year, SOS. Subsequent singles Unfaithful and We Ride grated.

Colombian bombshell Shakira joined Wyclef Jean for smash hit Hips Don't Lie. Sandi Thom's I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker was rendered maddening by overplay.

Meanwhile, in hip-hop, Kick Push, Lupe Fiasco's ode to skateboarding and greater things, shone. Credit for the reinvention of Nelly Furtado as a sultry ghetto mama - and Justin Timberlake's evolution as a credible artist - can go to producer Timbaland.

The Neptunes were hardly inactive, though. Ludacris' Moneymaker and Gwen Stefani's Wind It Up are two of the year's best. Just don't mention Pharrell Williams' dud solo album. Gang-banger the Game referred to "Crips and Bloods" in the spectacular Let's Ride, while Nas and Kelis returned with smoking singles: Hip Hop's Dead and Bossy, respectively.

The usually reliable Diddy made a vanilla comeback: Come To Me, and it was an annus horribilis for Outkast too. The long-delayed Idlewild album flopped. First single Mighty O was dire but Idlewild Blue and Morris Brown were underappreciated.

Beyonce released the so-so Deja-Vu and one of the year's best r'n'b jams, Irreplaceable.

The most brilliant - and filthy - hip-hop song was Bump! by an inconspicuous Philadelphia troupe called Spank Rock.

Rock-wise, Primal Scream put out one of the best tracks (and videos) of their career: the openly derivative but positively exuberant Country Girl. Just as good were Razorlight's In the Morning and America.

Pearl Jam felt vital again with World Wide Suicide.

One of the better rock songs that commercial radio played ad nauseum came from Arkansas goths Evanescence: Call Me When You're Sober, released after vocalist Amy Lee's former boyfriend Shaun Morgan entered rehab for "unspecified problems".

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' comeback Dani California was a corker. Tool's two seven-minute singles Vicarious and The Pot went to number one.

The Killers reappeared with two superb singles: When You Were Young and Bones. Nickelback continued releasing awful singles and selling millions.


Source (http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/loneliest-number/2006/12/21/1166290654629.html?from=rss)

Daily Record NEWS Glasgow
29 December 2006

THE RAZZ: CLUBBNG CLASS OF '06

Clubbing Hogmanay06 map Here is your guide to what's happening near you
By Stuart Barrie

MAKING a list of my best tunes, albums and mixes from the past 12 months wasn't easy. There's been so much fantastic music I could easily have done a top 50.It was the year minimal was the biggest noise, trance DJs ruled the world again and everyone swapped their funky house records for a darker, electric sound. So here's my list of all the tunes that mattered in 2006.

TUNES

1 Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Your Hands Up For Detroit. Easily the most underground dance tune to cross over in years.

2 Union of Knives-Evil Has Never Stunning piece of menacing electro-rock from the superb Glasgow three piece.

3 Pete Heller -Simpler Not much to this, but boy, was it an effective dance record.

4 Hot Chip - Over and Over The highlight of their explosive live show and even a favourite at NME.


5 Chris Lake - Changes The Scots producer burst on the scene in spring and DJs are still playing it.


6 Depeche Mode -Just Can't Get Enough (Dirty South mix)


One of my all-time favourite bands get toughened up with electrifying results.


7 The Egg feat David Guetta-Walking Away A huge crowd pleaser.


8 Robbie Williams Lovelight (Soulwax Mix) The coolest Robbie's been in ages courtesy of a mind-blowing remix by the coolest people to ever have come out of Belgium.


9 Mason - Exceeder An Ibiza anthem that won't go away. There's a new vocal version but the original is best by miles.


10 MANDY vs Booka Shade - Body Language One of the tunes that defined the minimal sound and is now a real crowd pleaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5G63WCuLO0

THE CHART OF TRUTH
These are the best pop
songs of 2006.

This chart is true because
it doesn't let sales,
airplay or 'text voting'
get in the way of things.

It's just good songs.




1 Nelly Furtado - 'Maneater'
2 Jamelia - 'Beware Of The Dog'
3 Shiny Toy Guns - 'Rainy Monday'
4 Girls Aloud - 'Somethin' Kinda Ooh'
5 Sugababes - 'Red Dress'
6 Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar'
7 Dragonette - 'True Believer'
8 Robyn - 'With Every Heartbeat'
9 Annie - 'Songs Remind Me Of You'
10 Beyonce - 'Irreplaceable'
11 SuperJupiter - 'You Know'
12 Omarion - 'Ice Box'
13 Justin Timberlake - 'My Love'
14 All American Rejects - 'Move Along'
15 All Saints - 'Rock Steady'
16 The Gossip - 'Standing In The Way Of Control (Tronic Youth mix)'
17 Robbie Williams - 'She's Madonna'
18 Shiny Toy Guns - 'You Are The One'
19 Scissor Sisters - 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'
20 Timbaland - 'Give It To Me'
21 Hadouken! - 'That Boy That Girl'
22 Jamelia - 'Something About You'
23 Lil Chris - 'Gettin' Enough'
24 Robbie Williams - 'The 80s'
25 Amy Winehouse - 'You Know I'm No Good'
26 Justin Timberlake - 'SexyBack'
27 Shiny Toy Guns - 'Don't Cry Out'
28 Meat Loaf - 'Blind As A Bat'
29 The Feeling - 'Strange'
30 Original Cast - 'Let In The Sunlight'
31 Paris Hilton - 'Nothing In This Worls'
32 Michael Jackson - 'Technicolour'
33 Rihanna - 'SOS'
34 Sugababes - 'Easy'
35 Pet Shop Boys - 'Integral'
36 All Saints - 'On And On'
37 Robbie Williams - 'The 90s'
38 Original Cast - 'Life'
39 Girls Aloud - 'Singapore'
40 Frank - 'Never Left A Girl'
41 Dragonette - 'I Get Around'
42 Sophie Ellis Bextor - 'Dear Jimmy'
43 Patrick Wolf - 'Accident & Emergency'
44 All Saints - 'In It To Win It'
45 Girls Aloud - 'The Crazy Life'
46 Matt Willis - 'Hey Kid'
47 Sharam - 'PATT (Party All The Time)'
48 Shiny Toy Guns - 'We Are Pilots'
49 Girls Aloud - 'I Think We're Alone Now'
50 Hadouken! - 'Dance Lesson'
51 The Killers - 'When You Were Young'
52 Alesha Dixon - 'Knockdown'
53 CSS - 'Let's Make Love And Etc Etc'
54 Amy Winehouse - 'Love Is A Losing Game'
55 P Diddy feat. Christina - 'Tell Me'
56 Paris Hilton - 'Stars Are Blind'
57 Robbie Williams - 'Kiss Me'
58 Betty Curse - 'Girl With Yellow Hair'
59 Keane - 'Try Again'
60 Dragonette - 'Competition'
61 Lil Chris - 'Checking It Out'
62 Pet Shop Boys - 'Party Song'
63 Things We Made - 'Cold Light'
64 Maria Lawson - 'Sleepwalking'
65 Stefy - 'Chelsea'
66 Alesha Dixon - 'Lipstick'
67 Shiny Toy Guns - 'Le Disko'
68 Madonna - 'Get Together'
69 Lady Sovereign - 'Love Me Or Hate Me'
70 Hot Chip - 'Over & Over'
71 Amy Winehouse - 'Rehab'
72 Loleatta Holloway - 'Love Sensation 2006'
73 Muse - 'Supermassive Black Hole'
74 All American Rejects - 'Dirty Little Secret'
75 Pet Shop Boys - 'I'm With Stupid (PSB Maximix)'
76 Bodies Without Organs - 'Chariots Of Fire'
77 Pleasure - 'Out Of Love'
78 Rogue Traders - 'Voodoo Child'
79 Stefy - 'Orange County'
80 Bertine Zetlitz - '500'
81 Supermode - 'Tell Me Why'
82 Mutya Buena - 'Darkside'
83 Molly McQueen - 'No Sleep Tonight'
84 Robbie Williams - 'Lovelight'
85 Pet Shop Boys - 'Bright Young Things'
86 Matt Willis - 'Up All Night'
87 Ferry Corsten - 'Watch Out'
88 Fedde Le Grand - 'Put Your Hands Up For Detroit'
89 Stefy - 'Hey School Boy'
90 Matt Willis - 'Luxory'
91 Robbie Williams - 'Buslem Normals'
92 Girls Aloud - 'Crazy Fool'
93 The Automatic - 'Monster'
94 Goose - 'Black Gloves'
95 Project New City - 'On Arrival In Narita'
96 Matt Willis - 'Sound Of America'
97 Robbie Williams - 'Keep On'
98 Pet Shop Boys - 'Numb'
99 Neighbourhood - 'Kid Comes Out To Play'
100 Pet Shop Boys - 'Fugitive (Richard X mix)'
101 Veto Silver - 'Stay Young, Stay Beautiful'
102 All Saints - 'Fundamental'
103 Belle - 'Surfacing'
104 Meat Loaf - 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'
105 Frank - 'I'm Not Shy'
106 Robyn - 'Konichiwa *****es'
107 David Guetta vs The Egg - 'Love Don't Let Me Go'
108 Robbie Williams - 'Rudebox'
109 Jose Gonzales - 'Heartbeats'
110 Mika - 'Relax'
111 Alesha Dixon - 'Ting-A-Ling'
112 All American Rejects - 'It Ends Tonight'
113 Christina Aguilera - 'Ain't No Other Man'
114 Nelly Furtado - 'Say It Right'
115 The Attic - 'A Life To Live'
116 Razorlight - 'In The Morning'
117 Christina Millian - 'Say I'
118 All American Rejects - 'It Ends Tonight'
119 Bodies Without Organs - 'Temple Of Love'
120 Magnet & Steele - 'Angels Sing'
121 Akala - 'Shakespeare'
122 Rihanna - 'Unfaithful'
123 Cherish - 'Do It Do It'
124 Siobhan Donaghy - 'Don't Give It Up'
125 McFly - 'Please, Please'
126 Wigwam - 'Wigwam'
127 Gnarls Barkley - 'Smiley Faces'
128 Lily Allen - 'LDN'
129 Keane - 'Nothing In My Way'
130 Annie - 'Crush (Richard X mix)'
131 Betty Curse - 'God This Hurts'
132 Robyn - 'Cobrastyle'
133 Bodies Without Organs - 'Obsession'
134 Matt Willis - 'Get Out The Car'
135 Will Young - 'Who Am I'
136 Beyonce - 'Deja Vu'
137 Lorraine - 'I Feel It (Cicada remix)'
138 Beyond - 'I Just Don't Have The Heart'
139 The Similou - 'All This Love'
140 Matt Willis - 'Ex-Girlfriend'
141 Freddie Mercury - 'Love Kills (Sunshine People mix)'
142 Nelly Furtado - 'All Good Things'
143 Lorraine - 'Transatlantic'
144 John Parr VS Tommyknockers - 'New Horizon'
145 Dannii Minogue - 'So Under Pressure'
146 Hot Chip - 'Colours'
147 Alesha Dixon - 'Superficial'
148 Mutya Buena - '2 The Limit'
149 Primal Scream - 'Country Girl'
150 The Feeling - 'Fill My Little World'
151 Bodies Without Organs - 'We Could Be Heroes'
152 Bimbo Jones - 'Harlem One Stop'
153 Infernal - 'Paris To Berlin'
154 Dannii Minogue - 'Love Fight'
155 Keane - 'Crystal Ball'
156 Pink - 'You And Your Hand'
157 Lorraine - 'Saved'
158 Lily Allen - 'Nan You're A Window Shopper'
159 LMC feat Rachel McFarlane - 'You Get What You Give'
160 The Modern - 'Sometimes'
161 Lorraine - 'Tell Me Where You Wanna Go'
162 Embrace - 'Nature's Law'
163 Pet Shop Boys - 'The Sodom & Gomorrah Show'
164 Goldfrapp - 'Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago re-edit)'
165 Daz Sampson - 'Teenage Life'
166 Sugababes - 'Follow Me Home (Soul Seekerz mix)'
167 Upper Street - 'The One'
168 Nylon - 'Losing A Friend'
169 Gnarls Barkley - 'Crazy'
170 Shayne Ward - 'No Promises'
171 Nelly Furtado - 'Promiscuous Girl'
172 Belle - 'What The Hell'
173 The Delays - 'Valentine'
174 Gym Class Heroes - 'Clothes Off!'
175 Pet Shop Boys - 'I Made My Excuses And Left'
176 Mousse T vs Dandy Warhols - 'Horny As A Dandy'
177 Lorraine - 'Heaven'
178 Ashlee Simpson - 'Boyfriend (Frantic Mix)'
179 Morrissey - 'You Have Killed Me'
180 Wigwam - 'Rock Me Non Stop'
181 Alexis Strum - 'It Could Be You'
182 Sugababes - 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
183 Keane - 'Is It Any Wonder'
184 McFly - 'Don't Stop Me Now'
185 Coldplay - 'Talk (Thin White Duke mix)'
186 Belle - 'Wish'
187 Marie Serneholt - 'That's The Way My Heart Goes'
188 Plan B - 'Mama'
189 Pet Shop Boys - 'I'm With Stupid'
190 Lorraine - 'I Feel It'
191 Goldfrapp - 'Ride A White Horse'
192 Wigwam - 'Rock-a-doodle-boo'
193 Madonna - 'Sorry (Pet Shop boys remix)'
194 The Modern - 'Seven Oceans'
195 Lil Chris - 'Get Delirious'
196 Scissor Sisters - 'I Can't Decide'
197 Meck - 'Thunder In My Heart'
198 Take That - 'Today I've Lost You'
199 Girls Aloud - 'Whole Lotta History'
200 Protocol - 'Where's The Pleasure'
201 Pet Shop Boys - 'Minimal'
202 Georgina B Shaw - 'Dirty Rotten Boy'
203 Madonna - 'Sorry'
204 Chris Brown - 'Yo (Excuse Me Miss)'
205 Beyonce - 'Check On It'
206 Will Young - 'All Time Love'
207 Alexis Strum - 'Alright'
208 Chicane feat Tom Jones - 'Stoned In Love'
209 Freelance Hellraiser - 'You Can Cry All You Want'
210 Texas - 'Get Down Tonight'
211 Hoboken - 'Beauty Queen'
212 tATu - 'Friend Or Foe'
213 The Defence - 'Frank Sinatra'
214 The Streets - 'When You Wasn't Famous'
215 Veto Silver - 'When You're With That Girl'
216 Love Bites - 'Fit Like Me'
217 Hot Chip - 'Boy From School'
218 Shelley Poole - 'Totally Underwater'
219 Hi-Tack - 'Say Say Say'
220 Vittorio Grigolo - 'Se To Non Sei Lei'
221 The Vacancy - 'Handheld'
222 Jagged Edge - 'So Amazing'
223 El Presidente - 'Turn This Thing Around'
224 Pink - 'Stupid Girls'
225 The Modern - 'Industry'
226 Infernal - 'Self Control'
227 Freemasons - 'Watchin''
228 Vittorio Grigolo - 'Bedshaped'
229 Mark Owen - 'Hail Mary'
230 Chico - 'It's Chico Time'
231 William Orbit feat Sugababes - 'Spiral'
232 Bananarama - 'Lovebite'
233 Son Of Dork - 'Eddie's Song'
234 Juelz Santana - 'There It Go (The Whistle Song)'
235 The Vacancy - 'Bad Luck Boomerang'
236 Mylo - 'Muscle Cars'
237 Pussycat Dolls - 'Beep'
238 Richard Hawley - 'Just Like The Rain'
239 Shakira - 'Don't Bother'
240 US5 - 'Maria'
241 Sparks - 'Dick Around'
242 Alex Parks - 'Honesty'
243 Gwen Stefani - 'Wind It Up'
244 Shayne Ward - 'Stand By Me'
245 Simon Webbe - 'After All This Time'
246 Jesse McCartney - 'Beautiful Soul'
247 Lee Ryan - 'When I Think Of You'
248 Sunblock - 'I'll Be Ready'
249 Stacie Orrico - 'I'm Not Missing You'
250 Shapeshifters - 'Sensitivity'
251 Lorraine - 'When I Return To The World'
252 The Sounds - 'Tony The Beat'
253 Emma Bunton - 'Life In Mono'
254 Emma Bunton - 'Downtown'
255 The Format - 'The First Single'
256 The Sounds - 'Queen Of Apology'



Source =POPJUSTICE
http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_musichart&Itemid=48

Los Angeles Times

January 7, 2007
Home Edition

E-MAIL FROM LONDON;
Riding the wake of the Web;

Lily Allen will lead a new wave of British artists to the forbidding U.S. shores in coming months. But the reach of the Internet makes invasion a little easier.


OVER the past year, doom's trumpet has blown a few blasts in the general direction of the music industry. But in the U.K., music itself is feeling good and ready to show America a very good time indeed.

Of course, if you survey the U.S. album charts for 2006, consolation for Brits remains modest: a few unit-shifting classics such as the Beatles and Rod Stewart plus the handful of newcomers who've sold anywhere from the mid-700,000s (Corinne Bailey Rae, Snow Patrol) to more than 2 million (James Blunt). And Robbie Williams, our biggest domestic star of the Noughties, not even releasing his latest album, "Rudebox," in America ... let's not even think about it.

But look at the culture rather than the stats, and the U.K. is suddenly riding a wave. I'm calling it The Movement That Has No Name Because It's Not a Movement It Just Is. Which may not catch on.

However, Martin Talbot, editor of U.K. Billboard equivalent Music Week, offers some solid explanation for our optimism: "A greater wealth of new talent is coming through than for many years: Nine No. 1 debut albums in our chart and most of them by British artists. I don't think Beatlemania will happen again, but a lot of the new acts individually do have a shot at the mainstream in America in 2007."

Certainly, it's a key year for Lily Allen. She's the sassy standard-bearer for a new British songwriting generation who are continuing a witty, street-life tradition that goes back to the Kinks, Ian Dury, Squeeze, Morrissey, Pulp and on through their immediate precursor, Cockney rapper the Streets.

Read the full article here (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/cl-ca-britain7jan07,1,5060408.story?coll=la-entnews-music&ctrack=1&cset=true)

I'm calling it The Movement That Has No Name Because It's Not a Movement It Just Is. Which may not catch on.

:pmsl:

And Robbie Williams, our biggest domestic star of the Noughties, not even releasing his latest album, "Rudebox," in America ... let's not even think about it

But it is in the stores. I have seen it. :D

Ooh, not an inaccurate piece of reporting? Well, I never!

OK commuter


Deborah Finch, 28

Monday January 8, 2007
The Guardian


I enjoy these old Take That songs because they remind me of good times and I like to feel happy in the mornings. I listen to these songs on the way to work, mainly - they help me get through a really horrible commute from north London to High Street Kensington.
I prefer Rudebox over other Robbie Williams songs because it's quite lively. All the stuff I listen to on my commute makes me smile about something and think that the day is going to get better.

What I Go to School For has quite amusing lyrics, if you listen to them. My colleagues say I'm too old to listen to things like this and I should get a bit more with it. But it keeps me happy, so why shouldn't I?

I like this G4 track - listening to Jerusalem makes me feel very English. It is quite booming for the morning, but I need something like that to start the day. I can't be doing with quiet music then.

1 Take That - Everything Changes

2 Take That - Could it be Magic

3 Robbie Williams - Rudebox

4 Busted - What I Go to School For

5 G4 - Jerusalem

Share your commuting soundtrack with us. Email office.hours@ guardian.co.uk

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/robbie-williams/greatest-hits.htm

:blaf:

A nice read but obviously not proof read by anyone, sad really just a statement of the press these day?

shame he didn't write with Guy chadwick as he is an amazingly talanted songwriter and ex lead singer with a mega amazing band called the house of love. I have all their albums and went to see them a number of times live and they would have made a very good team actually... funnily enough House of love also had a song called Feel!!!

check out no 82
http://www.hot100brasil.com/chtsinglesb.html

Robin Williams :pmsl::pmsl::pmsl:

:pmsl: yeah Foxy i did notice that when i was looking on that other thread

WIRELESS WINNERS

ANTONY BRUNO

Source: Billboard March 31, 2007

If you're making music these days, odds are you're doing something with mobile. Whether it's ringtones or videos, or in some cases even games, creating mobile content is becoming as commonplace for artists as creating a music video. But while everyone is on the mobile bandwagon, Billboard set out to learn who's doing the driving. A handful of enterprising artists are raising the mobile bar to new levels, applying their creative energies to developing either new mobile products or using existing products in new ways. These are the artists who are taking a personal and hands-on approach to setting their mobile agenda, who see mobile as not just an accessory, but as a vehicle of creative expression, promotion and revenue. What follows is Billboard's first Top 10 Wireless Artists list, identifying those engaging in the most innovative mobile practices today and defining the mobile opportunities of tomorrow.

1 Justin Timberlake (Sony) The Auteur

While he may not have the same volume or variety of mobile products as others on this list, Timberlake by far has taken the most personal control over the development of a new mobile product that he conceived, designed and developed. In doing so, he is pushing the boundaries of how artists, their managers and the wireless industry can directly work together for mutual benefit.

JT-TV, Timberlake's custom TV service on Verizon Wireless, consists of four channels dedicated to fashion, music, movies and travel, giving fans a 24/7 look into Timberlake's activities.

Neither pricing nor traffic figures will be available until after the service launches this month. But if Timberlake's fans flock to the service the way his management hopes they will, such artist-branded mobile entertainment products could provide superstar artists a new level of promotional and financial independence from their traditional label relationship.

"If you're one of those artists who have already established a fan base through the music business, and your label deals are up . . . this is the kind of deal you should make for the future," Timberlake's manager Johnny Wright says. "Content is key, and in a lot of these label deals, the artists don't own their content. So if you're one of those established artists that, like Justin, are self-contained, you should make your own album and deliver it to a mobile company like Verizon. Maybe you're not in a thousand stores across the country, but it's a platform you can control and you can own 100% of the revenues coming back to you. No one can dictate how or what you have to do."2 Snoop Dogg (Universal Music Group) The Groundbreaker

The Doggfather almost single-handedly created the voicetone market with the "What's crack-a-lackin'?" ringback tone in 2004, which remains a best-selling item today. Universal Music Group claims Snoop has sold more than 100,000 voicetones. According to direct-to-consumer voicetone vendors Thumbplay and Zingy, Snoop remains the most downloaded artist in their catalog.

He was one of the first artists to appear in a mobile videogame with "Snoop Dogg Boxing" in 2003 (which has a sequel on the way), and was one of the first to receive an RIAA-certified platinum mastertone for "Drop It Like It's Hot," at more than 3.1 million sales in the United States alone in 2006.

In February, he became the first artist to initiate a text-message fan club through 9Squared's new "In Crowd" service, through which Snoop will send personalized text message updates to fans. He's filmed several exclusive performances for Amp'd Mobile and even distributes video of his youth football league through the operator's network.

"He's always trying to figure out a mobile component to everything he's doing under the Snoop umbrella," says Chris Atlas, Amp'd director of entertainment marketing. "He is very aware of the mobile generation and trying to advance his art through mobile carriers."

3 T.I. (Warner Music Group) The jack of all trades

In terms of the breadth of mobile content, few hold a candle to ATLien T.I. In all, he has more than 200 different mobile titles, including mastertones (54), ringbacks (34) and voicetones (86); his own mobile videogame ("T.I. Racing," which has received a makeover for a pending relaunch); various types of made-for-mobile video footage; and audio fan club messages.

In preparation for his new album release -- scheduled for July -- he is launching a suite of next-generation mobile services. With partner Sonic Branding, he's launching a mobile game called "FanJam: T.I. Edition," a customized version of a "Tetris"-like game that plays songs and displays images of the artist as the puzzle is put together. Also with Sonic Branding, T.I. is releasing the ToneMaker DJ application to let fans remix his songs into custom ringtones.

In the coming weeks, the rapper will issue a series of mobile trading cards from partner Hook Mobile. For $3 per week, users will get three random cards weekly for 10 weeks, which in certain combinations will be redeemable for T-shirts, concert tickets and more. Players of McDonald's version of Monopoly will grasp the concept quickly.

Finally, in July T.I will launch a new mobile subscription fan club with provider Motricity called Grand Hustle Club, through which he will issue personalized text message updates and alerts for new singles.

T.I. undertakes these mobile efforts at all times, not just around the promotional period for a new record.

"He never stops thinking about mobile," says Livia Tortella, Atlantic GM and executive VP of marketing and creative media.

4 Fall Out Boy (Universal Music Group) The road warrior

The band prefers to send tour announcements, ticket alerts and other band news to its fans' mobile phones first, rather than as a complement to online posts. As such, it is aggressive in gathering fans' mobile contact info. During the band's upcoming tour, scheduled to begin April 18, it will encourage fans to take photos of their experiences at the show and upload them to FOB's Web site and MySpace page. The promotion is called "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" (or "thanks for the memories" in text-message speak) -- also the title of the second single off its new album. Additionally, FOB conducts in-concert text-to-win contests where fans can win better seats and even go backstage after the show.

In advance of the tour, FOB is also building its mobile contact list through a mobile trading card promotion. Fans can download one of 10 mobile wallpapers, designed like Tarot cards. Some cards appear less frequently than others, so fans have to keep texting into the fan club to get all 10, which can then be redeemed for prizes.

"With both promotions, the big win is collecting mobile data from fans that we can then use to correspond back with them," says Karen Wiessen, VP of media and artist relations at Island Def Jam.

5 Beyoncé (Sony) The Gamestress

When you think of Beyoncé fans, videogame geeks aren't the first group that comes to mind. Yet the former Destiny's Child star is working with Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) to create a genre-defining mobile videogame aimed at engaging her fans via mobile phones. According to mobile usage tracking firm Telephia, women purchase 65% of all mobile games. Taking that as her cue, Beyoncé's game, expected to be released this summer, will mix her interests in fashion and makeup.

The as-yet-untitled game will add features on a monthly basis, requiring a monthly subscription fee (price TBD), and include an online community element.

According to Larry Shapiro, WDIG executive VP of business development and operations, a good artist-branded mobile game must avoid certain pratfalls. "Two things are equally negative," he says. "One is a brand slap where they want the money and don't care about the service, which then doesn't fit the artist. Or they'll limit you too much, and you wind up with an inferior service."

However Shapiro has nothing but high praise for Beyoncé and her father/manager Mathew Knowles.

"They've been very hands-on and incredibly helpful," he says.

6 Ashley Tisdale (Warner Music Group) The Moblogger

Artists looking to engage their fans on a daily basis online have great tools at their disposal in MySpace and YouTube. Mobile phones with video cameras and texting capabilities allow those interested to update these sites more regularly -- and instantly. Perhaps no other artist has taken advantage of this new opportunity as much as "High School Musical" star Tisdale. Using a one-click posting service from ShoZu and a video-enabled mobile phone, Tisdale has been providing fans with a virtual day-by-day, hour-by-hour account of her life. While several other artists use the ShoZu service to update their sites around two to five times per week, none have been as prolific as Tisdale, who averages about three to five posts per day.

Fans have been eating it up. Her YouTube video blog has skyrocketed to 200,000 daily views, and ShoZu executives say she has single-handedly proved their business model.

"She immediately understood the purpose of the videoclips," ShoZu marketing director Jen Grenz says. "She didn't do anything canned or prepared. She calls it her YouTube phone. She's taken a tool for promotion and turned it into a career-building move."

7 Linkin Park (Warner Music Group) The Documentarian

The group has created a 15-episode series chronicling the making of the upcoming "Minutes to Midnight" album (out May 15), as well as what the band and its side projects have been up to, which will air on MobiTV soon.

"They created the whole vision," Warner Bros. Records senior director of new media Jennifer Bird says. "They shot it, cut it and edited it all themselves. Normally, we have to do that, but they've been working on this since last summer."

Additionally, Linkin Park is launching a unique twist on the text-message fan club by taking fan questions and comments and responding to them directly. Finally, LP and mobile video blogger firm ShoZu are working on some still-to-be defined upgrades to the ShoZu service that should take mobile blogging into new areas, such as the ability to post to multiple blogs in a single post and one-to-one fan interaction via video.

8 Robbie Williams (EMI) The Ambassador

Known as an international superstar almost everywhere in the world save the United States, Williams elevated the potential of mobile music in a landmark deal with Europe's T-Mobile in conjunction with his 2006 Close Encounters tour. Besides just sponsoring the tour, T-Mobile also made available exclusive Williams tracks, video, live streaming footage of various concert dates and a Williams-branded Sony Ericsson Walkman phone preloaded with music and video recorded at the tour's kickoff in Durban, South Africa. As a result, the tour made the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest number of tickets sold in a single day.

While that relationship has ended, Williams continues his mobile outreach. Most recently he recorded two exclusive songs with Indian superstar Asha Bhosle to expand the mobile music market in India. One song, a remix of "Better Man," will be preloaded on select Sony Walkman phones sold in India before becoming available on CD or any other format. The other, "Rock DJ," will be an exclusive download via wireless operator Hutch.

9 Maná (Warner Music Group) The Latin Pioneer

Studies show that the Hispanic youth market is a voracious consumer of mobile entertainment products, but few Latin artists have stepped up to lead the way in serving that core demographic.

Taking a leadership role in this effort is the rock en Espanol group Maná. Last year, it became the first Latino act to offer live streaming of its concerts on mobile phones via Sprint's network (the company also sponsored the tour). The Los Angeles-based performance was available as an on-demand stream for three months afterward.

Additionally, Maná launched a text-message sweepstakes to award fans free trips to the band's shows, offered wireless seat-upgrade contests during concerts and set up an exclusive fan club on the Sprint network where it provides never-before-seen Spanish-language content like video interviews, streaming videos, full-song downloads and screensavers.

10 50 Cent (Universal Music Group) The Godfather

No list of mobile artists can be complete without 50 Cent, the man who ruled the mobile music format as it grew from fad to mainstream success.

He has sold more than 10.5 million master ringtone recordings. He has had 11 songs reach No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Ringtone chart, more than any other single artist (next closest is Ludacris with nine), and his "In Da Club" polyphonic ringtone was the first to break 1 million sales, more than a year before the RIAA began offering gold and platinum certifications for the medium.

Additionally, 50 Cent broke new ground in the areas of mobile games. The "Free Yayo" game, featuring the entire G-Unit crew, was the first mobile game developed from the ground up as a concept with the artist in mind. He followed up with a mobile game based on his movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," and has in development a motorcycle racing game expected in the second quarter through Zingy called "50 Cent's G-Unit Stuntin'."

Robbie breaks India, that would be interesting. Only one billion people there and yet he ignores the states. Yes I am feeling sorry for myself. :)

:hyper: Robbie go and live in Indian and wear their clothes and everything if theres over 1 billion people living there then GO!!!:pmsl:

Robbie breaks India, that would be interesting. Only one billion people there and yet he ignores the states. Yes I am feeling sorry for myself. :)


:hug: trouble is - he doesn't want to live in India :no3:

The Dap-Kings And Their Queen Are Back
2007-06-08

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Getting your groove on may not be so hard this fall, as Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are set to release 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone), September 25. All danced out from a 267 shows, 21 tours, 14 countries and three-continent stint, Jones and the boys took a breather to head back to Brooklyn to record their next album. They even returned to sampling favorites like Jurassic 5 and Kayne West for the follow-up to the Naturally EP. And in case you were wondering if these overachievers have been busy when not working on new tracks, you can hear and see them as Amy Winehouse's backing band, as well as being featured in recordings from Rufus Wainwright, They Might Be Giants and Robbie Williams. All in a day's work, right?

Tracklist For 100 Days, 100 Nights:
01. 100 Days, 100 Nights
02. Nobody's Baby
03. Tell Me
04. Be Easy
05. When The Other Foot Drops, Uncle
06. Let Them Knock
07. Something's Changed
08. Humble Me
09. Keep On Looking
10. Answer Me

www.myspace.com/sharonjonesandthedapkings

HMV latest to offer "DRM-free" music downloads
Plus, HMV.co.uk will offer both CDs and MP3 from September
by Amy-Mae Elliott

1 July 2007 - HMV has announced it will be selling "DRM-free" digital downloads from September 2007. All online HMV downloads will be incorporated into the hmv.co.uk store, rather than the currently separate hmvdigital.co.uk.

These changes will provide UK consumers with a choice of physical CDs or digital albums from a single site, something not done by anyone else on such a large scale. HMV intends to include EMI's "DRM-free" catalogue within an initial offering of over one million DRM-free tracks. The range will also include non-DRM product supplied by independent music labels.

This should include EMI artists such as Coldplay, Lily Allen, Gorillaz and Robbie Williams, as well as existing content from other labels by HMV's digital partner, MusicNet. These tracks will add to the 3 million-plus tracks that HMV already has online. All tracks will be available at the high-quality, 328 bit rate, and prices will start at 79p, which is cheaper than Apple's DRM-free tracks which are charged at a premium of £1.29.

These downloads will be compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods.

HMV has said it hope that the total number of non-DRM tracks available as MP3 downloads will grow over the coming months, as it reaches agreements with additional labels.

Source (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/8464/9488/HMV-Digital-DRM-Free-Music-Downloads.phtml)

Apple Sells A Lot Of iPhones, Universal Thinks It Can Go Alone, HMV Thinks It Can Do It Better
by Piers Fawkes

This weekend, some folk have guestimated that Apple have sold over half a million iPhones - which seems a rather a lot. And maybe the fastest selling gadget in history? The Apple Store blog ifoapplestore reports that 62 of its 164 U.S. retail stores (38%) will not have supplies of iPhones today on Monday.

Meanwhile, Universal seems quite discontent with Apple’s iTunes system and despite the fact that it might be the only thing making decent money for music companies (and a very recent 500,000 new subscribers ;) have decided to go it alone. The NY Times says the matter is still at negotiation but:

If Apple were to decide not to carry Universal’s recordings, the music company would likely sustain a serious blow: sales of digital music through iTunes and other sources accounted for more than 15 percent of Universal’s worldwide revenue in the first quarter, or more than $200 million.

And in Britain, we read that music retailer HMV still hasn’t died yet. In fact, they think they’re going to save their backsides by selling DRM free music - ta-dah! Aren’t Apple doing that also? Digital Lifestyles site reports:

Music mega retailed HMV has announced that it will start selling “DRM-free” digital downloads from September 2007.

Over one million “DRM-free” tracks will be available for download at launch, including EMI’s full catalogue with big names like Coldplay, Lily Allen, Gorillaz and Robbie Williams. They’ll also be existing content made available from other labels distributed by HMV’s digital partner, MusicNet, adding to the 3 million+ tracks already offered online by HMV.

Oh well, Universal will have somewhere to sell their music until they both close, we suppose.

Source (http://www.psfk.com/2007/07/apple-sells-a-lot-of-iphones-universal-thinks-it-can-go-alone-hmv-thinks-it-can-do-it-better.html)

Sharon Jones Lands Movie Roll, Band To Play The Apollo And Tour
August 2007

We are pleased to announce Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings will headline the world famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York on Oct 6, just four days after the Oct 2ND release of 100 Days, 100 Nights, the bands forthcoming album on Daptone Records. The band will then tour the US (dates at bottom). Tickets for the Apollo show go on sale today and are $25.00 each, available via the Box office or Ticketmaster. Doors at 8:00. Show at 9:00 p.m.

Additionally, Sharon Jones herself just completed filming the role of "Lila" in the upcoming film The Great Debaters. Denzel Washington both directed and stars in the film along with Forest Whitaker. Sharon plays a "Juke Joint" singer named "Lila" and has both a speaking part and is featured singing the Lucille Bogan classic "That's what my Baby Likes". She also recorded additional songs which will be included in the official soundtrack to the film. The movie is a Weinstein Co release and is due out on Christmas Day. Denzel Washington hand-picked Sharon from a quickly made DVDo of her live performances and applauded her on-screen talents.

100 Days, 100 Nights was recorded in the Dap-Kings self-built, self-operated, all analog recording studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn and bares the unmistakable Daptone Soul Sound - highly in demand among music fans and tastemakers alike. In the last year, producers such as Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Hank Shocklee, and Kenny Dope have been among those who came knocking at Daptone's door seeking the inimitable Dap-Kings sound to lend a tougher edge to their productions for such artists as Rhymefest, Lily Allen, Ghostface Killah, Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan. The Dap-Kings lend a tougher edge to their own productions for such artists as Rhymefest, Lily Allen, Ghostface Killah and Amy Winehouse. Meanwhile, Sharon Jones herself has past the time between touring lending the her soulful voice to projects for Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, They Might Be Giants and others.

Though these projects have helped the band branch out to new fans, it is unquestionable that their sound has never been as brutally soulful or masterfully delivered as it is on their own 100 Days, 100 Nights. The raw fire and soul which Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings consistently pour into their music will make this record and this band an irreplaceable part of many people's lives.

· 267 Shows, 21 Tours, 14 countries on 3 Continents since the 2005 release of Naturally.
· Festival appearances including Monterey Jazz, Umbria Jazz, Bumbershoot, Telluride Bluegrass, and Womad Festivals in the UK and the Canary Islands.
· Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings' music has been sampled by Jurasic 5, Gostface Killah, Kanye West and Rhymefest.
· Sold over 50,000 full length records and 20,000 vinyl 45's.
· Sold Out Sharon Jones' 50th Birthday Celebration at New York's Irving Plaza
· Appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
· National TV Campaign for "I Love NY" featured Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings performing their version of "This Land is your Land".
· Sharon Jones has been part of the cast touring with Lou Reed in Australia, Europe, and the US as part of the live production of "Berlin"
· The Dap-Kings recorded half of the music on Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black. Including the hit singles "Rehab" and "I'm No Good", and played as her backing band for her first ever US tour, including performances on David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
· After being featured on Verve Records' "Baby Loves Jazz" album, Sharon had her own Ella the Elephant children's book and CD published by Penguin Books.
· Mark Ronson worked closely with the Dap-Kings at Daptone Studios recording his new album "Versions" as well as other re mix projects including Lilly Allen's hit single "Smile".
· Rufus Wainwright and They Might Be Giants featured Sharon on their recent recordings.
· Robbie Williams hired the Dap-Kings horns to play on his album Rudebox.

Source (http://www.eqmag.com/story.asp?storycode=19146)

Thanks Mon - these guys have been busy....I will check this out sounds like my sort of music.....

I have their album "Naturally" and even though it came out in 2006, it sounds like 1965! I recommend it!

Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings To Release 100 Days, 100 Nights
by Tim Cashmere - August 23 2007


The phenomenal Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are gearing up to release their third album, '100 Days 100 Nights'.
The Dap Kings have cumulated years of funk schooling into what is said to be their funkiest album yet.

The band, who have taken the undeniably cool swagger of 60s soul and funk and injected it into an era when R&B has come to mean over produced pop product, earning the band much respect worldwide.

They have been sampled by Jurassic 5, Ghostface Killah, Rhymefest and Kanye West and been featured on TV commercials around the world.

Jones herself was most recently noted for her stunning performance as part of Lou Reed's band when he toured 'Berlin' and she has also recorded with Rufus Wainwright and They Might Be Giants.

The Dap Kings are featured on Amy Winehouse's most recent critically acclaimed album 'Back To Black'. They have also recorded with Robbie Williams on his album 'Rudebox'. The album is due out the first week of October.

Source (http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=2688)

Milow - You Don't Know (Movie Trailer): "John Travolta, Robbie Williams, Sheryl Crow all sing You Don't Know by Belgian singer-songwriter Milow." Well-made trailer for local tv station Vijftv. Had a soothing effect on me.

You don't know - movie trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYcKaShmBiA)

Wow! Lotsa 'names' in this movie

Well, I didn't know either !! :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

Very nice to see ! Cool:hyper: :hyper:

Very cool! Thanx for the link :)

Dub Re-Imagined: Musical Alchemy from Brooklyn's Ticklah
Posted: 2007-08-31

”Victor 'Ticklah' Axelrod is an analog reggae revivalist in a world falling to digital sin.”-- Carter Van Pelt, The Beat, August 2007

A battle wages in an underground Brooklyn studio. It's a war against mediocrity, an epic sound clash. The entire struggle is taking place inside the head of one man: Victor Axelrod a.k.a. Ticklah. The fruits of the brawl can be heard on Ticklah Vs. Axelrod, released September 18, 2007 on Easy Star Records, the same outfit that brought us Dub Side of the Moon and Radiodread. The album is roots reggae steeped in Ethiopian melodies, salsa, and ska, dripping with trippy dub production.

Even if you haven't heard his name, you've probably heard Axelrod's contributions to dozens of familiar projects. As a co-producer (and the keyboardist) of Dub Side of the Moon, he helped craft one of the best selling reggae albums of the decade. As a key member of the Afrobeat collective Antibalas, and as an original member of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Axelrod is known for nailing grooves and then dancing around them in jaw-dropping capacity. His session work with Mark Ronson has put him on tracks by Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, and Amy Winehouse (including the hit “Rehab”). And he's partnered on hit remixes with DJ Spinna, including Shaun Escofferey's “Days Like This” and Les Nubians' “Makeda.” When he's not collaborating with other musicians, Axelrod tackles his own musical demons; the results are some of the most original music released this year.

Some might call this a dub record, due to its heavy use of reverb, delay and effects; but that's not quite it. Call it Holistic Dub, since Ticklah approaches the music from every one of its individual components--rhythm, melody, harmonies, arrangement, sound--to craft the whole song. “While much has been said about King Tubby and Lee Perry, what is always overlooked is the source material they were working with to make dub music,” says Ticklah. “The musicianship of the rhythm sections, the engineering skills that captured the sounds in the first place, and the production values go unmentioned. The music on my record reflects my love, awe, and admiration for all these components of reggae music.”

A touchstone dub like “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown” was played by a tight reggae band; led by a groundbreaking instrumentalist, writer and arranger (Augustus Pablo); has one of the genre's most distinctive voices (Jacob Miller); has a final mix by a sonic visionary (King Tubby); and was recorded at one of the greatest sounding studios in Jamaican history (Dynamic Studios). Ticklah tackles every one of these roles somewhere on this record and in his studio (and sometimes all at once).

This obsession with so many elements of music creation--not to mention playing several instruments on the majority of the album--means that it takes time for Ticklah to finish a song. (The title of “Nine Years” is a humorous exaggeration about the length of time it took to create the track.) “I'm trying to put one simple thing with another to build something great. Like an architect or a furniture maker. The individual pieces may not necessarily be something to behold but the way they fit together, there's hopefully logic to it all.”

“I often make myself very unhappy because I'm convinced that there are ways to make the music I'm working on better than it already is; hence the title of the album.” While Ticklah Vs. Axelrod springs from this musical inner conflict, it's really a bit more tongue and cheek than dire, especially since it also recalls classic dub album titles. As crazy as Ticklah can drive himself, he's still doing something he loves.

As expected from a musician with as many credits as Axelrod, he brings in a few friends to help realize his vision. He calls his collaborators on this record “esoteric talents,” because they are all players who exist outside of the cookie cutter. “Which is not to say there isn't plenty of talent within the cookie cutter, either. It's just that each of these guys has their own sound. Like Vic Rice's bass, which works across all of the styles he plays from reggae to his Brazilian excursions, but doesn't really sound like anyone else. Every one brings something like that to it.”

Victor Rice is a regular collaborator at Ticklah's basement studio. Like Ticklah, Rice has played with a multitude of different outfits, including the Easy Star All-Stars, the Stubborn All-Stars and the Victor Rice Octet. The two met in 1997 through the Stubborn Records/ Version City crew and hit it off musically right away.

Guest vocalists include reggae stars Mikey General and Rob Symeonn, Vinia Mojica (best known for her work with De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest), and Tamar-kali (of the Easy Star All-Stars and the documentary “Afro-Punk”). Symeonn and Ticklah go way back from when they worked together on “Anything For Jah,” which was the first single Easy Star Records ever released, and more recently on the underground hit “Chosen One,” the title track of Symeonn's latest album. The two collaborated further on Ticklah's 2001 release, Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions: Roots Combination, which was Ticklah's first full-length foray into reggae.

For “Want Not,” Ticklah tapped his old friend, Tamar-kali. “And when I say she has one of my favorite voices,” he explains, “I don't mean '...that I know.' I mean in the world. I figured her whole tone and vibe would be complementary to the dark mood of the track, because generally what she sings is a very dread kind of thing.” Tamar-kali sang “Pain Of Loving You” on Ticklah's first album, Polydemic (1997), a song that Ticklah later reshaped and remixed into “Painful Dub” on Roots Combination.

Whether looking at his career as a whole, his latest record, or even within a single song, Ticklah jumps from style to style as fluidly as he leaps from one instrument to the next. The melody on “Answer Me” was inspired by a simple piano piece by the innovative 20th century Russian composer Vladimir Rebikov. Two songs--”Mi Sonsito” and “Si Hecho Palante”--tackle Eddie Palmieri classics in a ska and reggae setting respectively. As The Beat's Carter Van Pelt puts it, “nothing I've yet heard produced under the banner of reggaeton captures the potential union of salsa and reggae as well as these.” Both songs feature the vocals of Mayra Vega, who is known for her appearance on Antibalas' cover of “Che Che Cole.” It was Vega who encouraged Ticklah to do reggae versions of these songs she knew from childhood, after her mother had given Ticklah his first Palmieri record.

Now that Ticklah Vs. Axelrod is completed, he returns to his (actual) underground studio to find what other unfinished pieces can traumatize him. He's already at work on a remix of a Dap-Kings song for another upcoming project. After all, this particular battle may be over and in your hands, but the war still goes on.

Source (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=14982)

The music Australia loved

Lists of top selling albums and most successful performers, prepared by David Dale.

Last updated August 2007.

The top selling albums of the past ten years

1 Come On Over (Shania Twain)
2 Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette)
3 Innocent Eyes (Delta Goodrem)
4 Savage Garden (Savage Garden)
5 Falling Into You (Celine Dion)
6 Abba Gold (Abba)
7 Immaculate Collection (Madonna)
8 Recurring Dream (Crowded House)
9 Come Away With Me (Norah Jones)
10 Forgiven Not Forgotten (The Corrs)
11 Yourself or Someone Like You (Matchbox 20)
12 Forrest Gump (Soundtrack)
13 The Very Best of (The Eagles)
14 1 (The Beatles)
15 Affirmation (Savage Garden)
16 The Eminem Show (Eminem)
17 Live (Throwing Copper)
18 HIStory (Michael Jackson)
19 Don't Ask (Tina Arena)
20 The Sound of White (Missy Higgins)
21 Soul Deep (Jimmy Barnes)
22 Get Born (Jet)
23 Unplugged (Eric Clapton)
24 Let Go (Avril Lavigne)
25 Barricades and Brickwalls (Kasey Chambers)
26 Fever (Kylie Minogue)
27 Odyssey No 5 (Powderfinger)
28 Remasters (Led Zeppelin)
29 Symbols (Led Zeppelin)
30 The Best of 1980-1990 (U2)
31 The Ultimate Collection (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
32 No Angel (Dido)
33 Greatest Hits (Robbie Williams)
34 Back To Bedlam (James Blunt)
35 Just As I Am (Guy Sebastian)
36 Fallen (Evanescence)
37 That's What I'm Talking About (Shannon Noll)
38 Feeler (Pete Murray)
39 Life For Rent (Dido)
40 Michael Buble (Michael Buble)
41 Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson)
42 Songs About Jane (Maroon 5)
43 Mistaken Identity (Delta Goodrem)
44 American Idiot (Green Day)
45 It's Time (Michael Buble)
46 Love Angel Music Baby (Gwen Stefani)
47 Monkey Business (Black Eyed Peas)
48 So Fresh - Hits of summer 2003 (Various)
49 I'm Not Dead (Pink)

Based on charts since 1995 from the Australian Record Industry Association

Top sellers of 2006: Back To Bedlam (James Blunt); I'm Not Dead (Pink); Reach Out - The Motown Record (Human Nature); Wolfmother (Wolfmother); The Winner's Journey (Damien Leith).

The all-time more than 500,000 sellers, according to ARIA accreditations

1. Whispering Jack (John Farnham) 24 platinum*
2. Bat Out of Hell (Meatloaf) 22p
3. Come On Over (Shania Twain) 15p
4. Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette) 14p
5. Innocent Eyes (Delta Goodrem) 14p
6. Greatest Hits Collection (Queen) 13p
7. Thriller (Michael Jackson) 12p
8. Rumours (Fleetwood Mac) 12p
9. Savage Garden (Savage Garden) 12p
10. Falling Into You (Celine Dion) 12p
11. Abba Gold (Abba) 11p
12. Immaculate Collection (Madonna) 11p
13. Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) 11p
14. Recurring Dream (Crowded House) 11p
15. Age of Reason (John Farnham) 11p
16. The Very Best of (The Eagles) 11p
17. War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne) 10p
18. Don't Ask (Tina Arena) 10p
19. 1 (The Beatles) 9p
20. The Sound of White (Missy Higgins) 9p
21. Soul Deep (Jimmy Barnes) 9p
22. Chisel (Cold Chisel) 9p.
23. Come Away With Me (Norah Jones) 9p
24. Remasters (Led Zeppelin) 9p
25. Greatest Hits (Fleetwood Mac) 9p
26. Yourself or Someone Like You (Matchbox 20) 8p
27. Forgiven Not Forgotten (The Corrs) 8p
28. Get Born (Jet) 8p
29. Greatest Hits (Robbie Williams) 8p
30. Unplugged (Eric Clapton) 8p
31. Back to Bedlam (James Blunt) 8p
32. Best of 1980-1990 (U2) 8p
33. Californicaton (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) 8p
34. Symbols (Led Zeppelin) 8p
35. Odyssey Number Five (Powderfinger) 8p
36. The Eminem Show (Eminem) 8p

*A recording is awarded platinum status each time it sells 70,000 copies. But not all record companies have supplied ARIA with sales information on all their performers, so the list above is incomplete. It lacks obvious million sellers such as the early albums of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Seekers, and Neil Diamond.

The all-time most popular musicians with Australian record buyers
Prepared by David Dale for The Sydney Morning Herald, based on each performer's total sales of vinyl and CD albums, using estimates from the Australian Record Industry Association and music researcher David Kent's Australian Chart Book.

Performer Biggest Year Bestselling Album

1 Elton John 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2 The Beatles 1968 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3 Billy Joel 1976 Piano Man
4 Paul McCartney 1973 Band on the Run
5 Michael Jackson 1982 Thriller
6 Abba 1975 The Best of Abba
7 John Farnham 1986 Whispering Jack
8 Jimmy Barnes 1985 For The Working Class Man
9 Neil Diamond 1972 Hot August Night
10 Madonna 1990 The Immaculate Collection
11 Fleetwood Mac 1977 Rumours
12 The Rolling Stones 1971 Goat's Head Soup
13 Rod Stewart 1975 Atlantic Crossing
14 Dire Straits 1978 Brothers in Arms
15 Led Zeppelin 1973 Led Zeppelin II
16 Pink Floyd 1973 Dark Side of the Moon
17 Eurythmics 1985 Be Yourself Tonight
18 The Carpenters 1973 Now and Then
19 Celine Dion 1996 Falling Into You
20 Delta Goodrem 2003 Innocent Eyes
21 Savage Garden 1997 Savage Garden
22 Kylie Minogue 2001 Fever
23 Cat Stevens 1971 Teaser and the Firecat
24 Joe Cocker 1971 Cocker Happy
25 Mariah Carey 1994 Music Box
26 U2 1988 Rattle and Hum
27 INXS 1990 The Swing
28 Creedence Clearwater Revival 1970 Cosmo's Factory
29 Cold Chisel 1984 Twentieth Century
30 Midnight Oil 1983 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
31 Deep Purple 1970 Deep Purple in Rock
32 Elvis Presley 2003 30 #1 Hits
33 The Seekers 1968 The Best of the Seekers
34 Crowded House 1986 Crowded House
35 Leo Sayer 1974 Just a Boy
36 Eagles 1976 Hotel California
37 Meat Loaf 1978 Bat Out of Hell
38 Split Enz 1980 True Colours
39 Australian Crawl 1981 Sirocco
40 Bette Midler 1980 Beaches
41 Lionel Richie 1983 Can't Slow Down
42 Eminem 2002 The Eminem Show
43 David Bowie 1973 Let's Dance
44 Police 1979 Synchronicity
45 Skyhooks 1975 Living in the 70s
46 Bob Dylan 1976 Desire
47 AC/DC 1976 Back in Black
48 The Bee Gees 1999 Saturday Night Fever
49 Queen 1976 Greatest Hits Collection
50 Van Morrison 1974 Astral Weeks

Source (http://blogs.smh.com.au/sit/archives/2007/08/the_music_weve.html?page=2#comments)

i knew us aussies had good taste in music.....

wow is great i see that

The only other CDs I buy besides Robbie is Shannon Noll, and I don't think I will buy his new one (sorry shannon)

barnsey and farnsey, still 2 of my faves

Although a relatively young producer, Chris Lake exploded to international acclaim with the success of the mega club hit "Changes." Setting up his own label, Rising Music, has led to a string of more club hits including "Fantasy" and "One Too Many," and even an offshoot label Rising Trax that's gaining buzz with the release of underground tracks from Micky Slim and Sebastian Leger. With remixes of pop icons like Robbie Williams and Dannii Minogue, Chris Lake has built a truly international following which is obvious from his rigorous touring schedule. With a mixed CD selling well in many markets, Chris is finishing his debut artist album for an anticipated release later this year

Source (http://dancemusic.about.com/b/a/256559.htm)

would love to hear some of his work, thanx for that info mon

Mind on Music

Thursday, September 27, 2007

For far too long our society has existed under the oppressive yoke of the guilty pleasure. We have relegated some of our favorite tunes to this scrap heap of a genre. We've hidden iPods under sweaty palms as Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" scrolls across the screen for fear that a nosy neighbor at Hillside might glance across her turkey-and-brie to judge our outdated musical tastes. We've laughed self-consciously at the mere mention of Celine Dion and Barry Manilow. We've turned "Milkshake" and "The Final Countdown" into zany ring tones in the false hope that our judgmental hipster friends will think we like these songs ironically rather than wholeheartedly.

But what makes us turn perfectly acceptable, even great, songs into guilty pleasures? I submit the following simple questions to the jury. Is the song performed by a former child star? Guilty. Was the song number one on the MTV Europe countdown but has remained completely unknown in the States? Guilty … and I'm talking to you, Robbie Williams. Disco? Guilty. Did it feature prominently in a Julia Roberts flick? Guilty as charged. And, horror of all horrors, is the singer an American Idol castoff? Guiltier than O.J.!

We all know the usual suspects (the Spice Girls, James Blunt, Madonna) and, unless one of you is an evil robot or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we all love at least a few of these "embarrassing" musicians. Wouldn't the world be just a little happier if we could all admit it?

Well I'll be the first. "Toxic" by Britney Spears is a cultural masterpiece to be placed alongside the likes of Casablanca, Hamlet, and "Rhapsody in Blue." From the extraterrestrial synth intro to the obviously computerized violin riff to the dolphin clicking that is ex-Mama Federline's voice to the "I can't seem to find my favorite show on this old-timey television dial" dance … Genius on so many levels.

Now that I've made my confession, isn't it about time you join the crusade? It's easy. Just drop the façade of ironic detachment and embrace your song without embarrassment. The next time you're rocking out to your Hanson playlist on the elliptical, don't hurriedly switch to the Shins as a friend approaches. Crank up the Clarkson. Blast the Black Eyed Peas. Viva la zig-a-zig-ahhh!

Source (http://media.www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2007/09/27/TheScene/Mind-On.Music-2995003.shtml)

SingStar Hands-on
By Will Freeman - 27/09/2007

You'll be able to share your embarrassing moments with everyoneOn the PlayStation 2, SingStar has done almost all it can, which is no small feat for a superpower of gaming that has dominated the closing chapter of Sony's last-gen console. In a relatively short period of time SingStar has reinvented the PlayStation 2 and sold countless units to consumers specifically interested in a karaoke machine. The vocal-stretching behemoth has courted the pink pound, redefined post-pub gaming, and flirted with a whole new kind of gamer without having to rely for a moment on mini-games and motion gestures.

Sony's USB microphones may have sent the odd core-gamer running for cover as a gaggle of drunken girls with wine in hand and voices cracked invade his room, but on the whole it has also been embraced by traditional players, who are delighted and a little surprised by the fact that their antisocial hobby and wire-clad gaming den is now the place to be come the early hours, filled with laughter, hedonism, music and dancing.

But with all this success comes a degree of necessary complacency. SingStar on the PlayStation 2 is so fine-tuned it needs nothing more than a new list of songs for each release. So where to take the PlayStation 3 version, on a console with ample room for the series to breath, that is intended to be online as standard?

The answer to that question is fairly obvious with even a little thought, but the implementation of the answer is what impresses. Taking online gaming, which is perhaps the realm of the most dedicated gamers who are most far removed from SingStar fans, and repackaging it for the casual audience takes just two simple elements. Namely iTunes and the hugely popular, man-hour sapping, social networking sites.

Sony isn't a genius for realising that even the most practised technophobe still knows how to use Facebook or MySpace, and a quick count of white headphones on the tube or train proves how readily the public have accepted the ease of use of iTunes, but in applying these phenomenon to SingStar, the electronics giant seems to have made a masterstroke.

The basic formula to the new SingStar is a familiar one; generally a multiplayer game, players battle or co-operate by warbling along to a selection of popular music, with a final score somewhere in the back of their minds. Well over thirty songs are provided on disk, and if there is an emphasis in the selection, it is on the darlings of the music press past and present.

The predominance of bands like The Killers, The Automatic and The Zutons will repel as many as it attracts, though it must be said tunes such as Mr Brightside make for great singing regardless of your taste. The likes of Primal Scream, Blur, Supergrass and the Stone Roses really bolster the musical credibility of the compilation, while artists like OutKast, Junior Senior and Gwen Stefani provide class, cool and saccharine radio-friendly pop respectively, leaving the real style to Musical Youth and Twisted Sister. The Scissor Sisters bring their boutique smut to proceedings to spice things up, leaving U2, REM and Robbie Williams to provide the musical equivalent of Super Noodles with their dull, wet, soulless and indistinguishable ear-pap.
The included tracks become insignificant though, when SingStore comes into the equation. For now the list of songs on the tentative version of the store come largely from the previous PlayStation 2 versions of the game, but the interface is fantastic, chiefly thanks to mimicking the secret of its influence, which lets the user choose how they interact with the software. Whether searching by genre, or artist, or through various other techniques, choosing and browsing for music is a pleasure, and the presentation of SingStore as a whole screams user friendly, thanks to the freedom of use it provides.

The predictably named My SingStar is the other major online element, and essentially builds a profile out of your performances, harnessing the various new in-game features. The appeal of a public profile based on your most embarrassing drunken moments is a questionable one at first, but quickly becomes rather enticing, and the notion of an online network based on people being downright silly, rather than just bored at work, is wonderful by comparison.

The SingStar store is likely to drain your bank accountAs you play, an EyeToy or PSeye can record your performance for immediate viewing afterwards, without obstructing the music video as you play. The USB camera also collects Golden Moments, which are quick video snippets of your most animated bursts of song, and provides a brief catalogue of stills of your microphone wielding.

All these can be collected, shared and rated online, where it is hoped you will meet friends and establish yourself in a blossoming SingStar community. Just how successful this online neighbourhood will be when so many others of a far greater size already exist is debatable, but the popularity of the game itself and the SingStore, where it will be so easy to spend pennies, seems almost guaranteed.

The SingStar machine continues to grow and flex, enchanting and consuming everything in its path, leaving even the meekest performers delighted that they met with this monster of fun. Such a glorious beast feels like it has the power to swallow the games industry completely, and belt it out like a classic. One day, it feels, we will play games on a karaoke machine and your neighbours will rue the day Sony made karaoke fashionable again.

Source (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/ps3/singstar/preview-643.html)

Music Choices
4 bands to see this week
Music Choices
Publish Date: September 27, 2007

Arctic Monkeys
Normally, English bands that are bigger than Queen Elizabeth’s tits at home end up downsizing on this side of the pond. The Manic Street Preachers may fill football stadiums in the land where Robbie Williams is king and Camilla Parker Bowles is considered hot, but next time they hit Vancouver they’ll still be playing Richard’s on Richards to 400 lager-loaded expats. Mad props then to the Arctic Monkeys, who—only two albums into their career—are selling out 4,000-seaters like the PNE Forum, which they headline on Sunday (September 30). In just two years they’ve managed to pull off what Placebo and Travis can still only dream of, not to mention that twat from Take That

Full article and source here (http://www.straight.com/article-111640/4-bands-to-see-this-week)

A DECADE OF HITS TOP FESTIVE CHART
23 October 2007

2006 A Moment Like This, Leona Lewis

2005 That's My Goal, Shayne Ward

2004 Do They Know It's Christmas, Band Aid 2004 (Robbie was one of the singers in this version)

2003 Mad World, Michael Andrews/Gary Jules

2002 Sound Of The Underground, Girls Aloud

2001 Somethin' Stupid, Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman

2000 Can We Fix It?, Bob The Builder

1999 Seasons In The Sun/I have a Dream, Westlife

1998 Goodbye, The Spice Girls

1997 Too Much, The Spice Girls


Source: The Sentinel (http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=158338&command=displayContent&sourceNode=158321&contentPK=18752883&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch)

Out of the songs on the list Robbie and the Spice Girls songs are the best - but....Bob the builder???????????????????????!:shaz:

I bet the X-factor winner will be no1 this year :grouch:

where does it come from? What kind of chart is it?

It's from The Sentinel, but there were no explanations, just the chart.

Could it be Christmas no 1 hits? I think at least Something stupid was a Christmas hit.

It's from The Sentinel, but there were no explanations, just the chart.

Could it be Christmas no 1 hits? I think at least Something stupid was a Christmas hit.
you are right - that is the list of the UK Christmas number 1's :)

you are right - that is the list of the UK Christmas number 1's :)
Ok, thanks. :)

:thx:

The Times October 27, 2007

Give it up for the band

They’ve made Robbie, Amy and Lily swing, now it’s Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings’ turn to shine

Peter Shapiro

We had no idea that it was going to turn out to be what it was,” says Neal Sugarman, the saxophonist with the Dap Kings, the Brooklyn-based funk band that backed Amy Winehouse on her Back to Black album. “We had no idea who she was beforehand. And even when the record was hitting in the UK, it wasn’t even a reality for us. We weren’t really sure that it was going to work. Hey, I run a record label, I probably should have sniffed that out, but I was pessimistic about it working – just her look and who she was and the type of music.”

Despite Sugarman’s misgivings, the vintage soul/Brill Building sound conjured by the Dap Kings and the producer Mark Ronson helped to take songs like Rehab and Back to Black to the pop charts and made Winehouse a sensation. Although members of the Dap Kings had previously worked on other Ronson projects such as Lily Allen’s Alright, Still and Robbie Williams’s Rudebox, the transatlantic success of Back to Black and the subsequent American tour generated attention for the group, which has, in various incarnations, toiled on the cultish retro-funk scene for almost a decade. But after serving as the house band for MTV’s Video Music Awards in September and selling out the legendary Apollo Theatre in their hometown, the Dap Kings move closer to the spotlight with their rather wonderful third album, 100 Days, 100 Nights, recorded with their singer, the truly amazing Sharon Jones.

Born in James Brown’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia, Jones is a diminutive 51-year-old fireball with an infectious charm and a gritty, bluesy, showstopping voice. On 100 Days, 100 Nights, she delivers classic Southern soul-style ballads with perfect restraint and economy and simply smokes the uptempo funk grooves. One critic has dubbed her “the female James Brown”.

Jones, however, struggled for years to get noticed. In the 1970s she was told by producers that she was “too old”, “too fat” or just “didn’t have the look”. Frustrated, she largely gave up on music in the 1980s, save singing in a wedding band, before her then fiancé introduced her in the mid1990s to a young kid from Brooklyn named Gabriel Roth, who was recreating the sounds of late 1960s/early 1970s funk in his basement for the Desco label that he ran with Philippe Lehman. “Gabe was looking for three back-up singers to do this thing with Lee Fields, who was Desco’s major singer,” Jones recalls. “I was like, ‘You need three girls? I can do three-part harmonies and you can pay me this amount of money and I can save you.’ So Gabe went for it. One day he said, ‘Sing something to this music.’ And that was it. He was the glove and I just fitted right in.”

That funky feel
With Desco, Jones and the label’s house band, the Soul Providers, released a series of vinyl singles so convincing that many thought they were vintage funk. This trickery was largely the result of Roth’s unswerving allegiance to analog equipment and old-fashioned methods. After Desco folded and the Soul Providers mutated into the Dap Kings, Roth built an all-analog studio, where all the group’s material is recorded.

After Winehouse’s success, Roth’s studio and methods have attracted a lot of attention. “From the outside what we do might look strange,” he says. “But when you grow up listening to good records, you want to make records. You don’t grow up saying, ‘I want to make MP3s’ or ‘I want to make CDs.’ ” Jones loves working with the band after years of disappointment: “I’m able to sing stuff that I grew up on – songs that sound like Otis Redding, Tina Turner, James Brown, and no one can look at me and make fun. No one’s saying behind my back before a show, ‘Who’s going to see her old ass?’ Who’s coming to see me? I’m getting ready to sell out the Apollo, that’s who’s coming to see my old ass.”

Jones was also involved with the recent touring production of Lou Reed’s Berlin album. At first she was shocked by the dark material. “When I heard the songs [sings in a doomy Lou Reed voice]: ‘Caroline says... This is the bed that she slit her wrists in that cold and dark night.’ I’m like ‘Ewww’. But once they put the concert together and brought the choir in, it was beautiful.

“When we got to Australia, Lou Reed gave me two verses of Sweet Jane to sing, and when I sang those two verses the audience screamed and Lou Reed’s eyes were watering. He looked at me and looked at the crowd and said, ‘This woman right here took me to the mountain top tonight.’ ” Coming from rock’s prince of darkness, that is rare praise.

100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) is out on Monday

Source (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2725609.ece)

One of Robbie's albums is in The Guardians list over "1 000 albums to hear before you die":

Robbie Williams
Greatest Hits (2004)

If all of Williams' albums up to 2004 had been condensed into this single disc,
he would have been pronounced a pop genius. Almost nothing is beyond his
abilities: ballads (Angels), orchestral pop (Millennium), skittish dance-rock (Kids),
angsty introspection (No Regrets). Flashes of brilliance like these are the
reason that the next Robbie Williams has a hard act to follow.

Source: The Guardian (http://music.guardian.co.uk/1000albums)

That's great!!! And the critic is very good!! I'm so proud of our boy :laugh2:

Thanks for posting :D

Robbie :thumbup:


Thanks Marianne.

The Only Chart That Counted: 1997
December 17, 2007

As Syco prepare to use the biggest sales week of the year as their PR department's personal fiefdom, let's go back ten years to a time when the festive list wasn't controlled by svengalis and television-dictated one-offs. Pause for irony to sink in with those that jumped ahead to look at the top three, and continue.

40 Blackstreet - (Money Can't) Buy Me Love
All hail New Jack Swing, Teddy Riley's group perhaps the last to get a huge name producer a co-credit on a massive hit and not make a big thing about it, Dr Dre guesting on No Diggity. Nobody calls these 'vocal groups' any more.

39 Will Smith - Just Cruisin'
The biggest star in the world for quite a bit back there, but doesn't seem to have done much since The Pursuit of Happyness and you're doing well if you remember his two top 20 singles just two years ago.

38 Aerosmith - Pink
Should be as celebrated as Des'Ree's ghost/toast business for the spectacular inanity of its lyrics, we say. Observe: "As pink as the sheets that we lay on/Pink is my favorite crayon....Pink when I turn out the light/Pink, it's like red but not quite." Come on, Tyler, you're not on the heavy shit now.

37 Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life
And while we're on the topic, "we moonwalk the foxtrot then polka the salsa"?

36 Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas
'Holidays' power-pop greatness from mid-market monthly music magazine favourites still some years away from "American Busted" tag (not like the Jonas Brothers, who covered several Busted songs, that's what Teletext called them when Stacy's Mom was released)

35 Levellers - Dog Train
No such thing as crusties any more, so off they went into mere cultdom. Note though that the open policy of their Metway studio is often cited as one of the causes of Brighton's alt upswing this decade.

34 Sting & The Police - Roxanne '97
'Lute', you feel, is becoming a joke reference for the ages, perhaps even replacing 'tantric' on Sting's personal satire index card.

33 U2 - If God Will Send His Angels
From the album Pop, where they discovered there is such a thing as too little perspective.

32 Rakim - Guess Who's Back
And then away he went again.

31 Gala - Let A Boy Cry
They did Freed From Desire, and that was about it.

30 Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
Bassey seems to think this is her own song now, but then she's never seemed the share and share alike type.

29 Bryan Adams - Back To You
The Groover From Vancouver - and if you know of a worse musical nickname, let us know - was briefly hip at this point, attempting to establish himself as a celebrity photographer as well as someone for whom the yacht rock period finishes about ten years too early.

28 PF Project feat. Ewan McGregor - Choose Life
Dance producers sample famous Trainspotting monologue. Everyone loses.

27 The Verve - Lucky Man
'History' is rewritten by the whingers.

26 The Seahorses - You Can Talk To Me
Famously their name is an anagram of He Hates Roses, although John Squire surely didn't think about it that much. Much of his painting is just throwing the stuff about, if that's any indication.

25 Paul McCartney - Beautiful Night
From Flaming Pie, one of Macca's many, many 'returns to form' of the last fifteen years.

24 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
It was the year of The Full Monty, and the air was rich with the sulphur of cash-in. Prince Charles arse-making wasn't far away.

23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me
This is the one with the video where they're auditioning girls, and then the girls start auditioning them, and consequences ensue.

22 Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies
Slinky Bondian torch balladry from evergreen occasionally MOR songstress, back after early stage breast cancer treatment in February, it says here.

21 Louise - Let's Go Round Again
Like a less eager Charlotte Church, Ms Nurding/Redknapp was always easier to like when she wasn't singing, and nobody watching her on whatever UKTV channel The Clothes Show is on probably won't change that.

20 Steps - 5, 6, 7, 8
Not to be confused with Young & Lost Club rock'n'rollers The Steps, not that anyone will ever do that, this was their debut single from when they were a one-off project cashing in on the brief vogue for line dancing with those plastic box things. Pete Waterman only got involved after this. By the way, Pete, what did happen to that Sheilas single? Number 91, you say?

19 Five - Slam Dunk (Da Funk)
Don't want to do the Britain's Worst Neighbours anecdote again. Five were originally sold as the first "lad band", because they sat next to girls in videos and wore basketball tops.

18 Reds United - Sing Up For The Champions
And they wondered why everyone hated them.

17 Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way
You'd think she was up there with Billie Myers and Donna Lewis in 90s female one hit wonders, but you'd forget Stranded was an even bigger hit, which perhaps sums her impact up.

16 Celine Dion - The Reason
Soon to be the subject of a 33 1/3 book, albeit one that doesn't seem to actually be about Celine Dion.

15 Chicken Shed Theatre Company - I Am In Love With The World
This was pretty much favourite for number one on the basis of being for the Diana memorial fund, the recently deceased princess being their patron. Then people heard it.

14 Vanilla - No Way No Way
Ah! Frances, Alison, Alida and Sharon by name, the most infamous of the late 90s girl group explosion and their Piero Umiliani cribbing, folk tale being they were the result of a bet between record producers as to who could get the worst record into the chart. There was a follow-up, True To Us, which crawled into the top 40 shortly afterwards and was chiefly notable for a shortlived attempt at acapella on a kids' programme.

13 Barbra Streisand & Celine Dion - Tell Him
Not the same as, or as good as, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash's Tell Him.

12 Steven Houghton - Wind Beneath My Wings
Was in London's Burning, like John Alford. As nobody cares about Steven Houghton, what happened to John Alford after he came out of jail?

11 Elton John - Candle In The Wind '97/Something About The Way You Look Tonight
Probably still in the Canadian top ten.

10 Mase - Feel So Good
One of Puffy's lot, and hence subject to Diddy's usual man-distracted-while-reading-paper rapping style, not that he was much better himself.

9 Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You
Never mind this schlock, Tracy Chapman, whose this is, re-recorded it with Pavarotti, just to show them how to really misjudge the tone of a song.

8 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Controversies rarely came smaller than the significant tabloid and Chris Evans shitstorm that blew up when it transpired someone else had written the song and given it to minor European singers to record long before Imbruglia had a shot. Pop facts: both of Zero 7 worked on the track, Katrina off the Waves is on backing vocals and it was released four years after she left Neighbours.

7 Robbie Williams - Angels
The widely accepted story is the song was actually written by Williams with an Irish writer called Ray Heffernan, Guy Chambers brought in as a fixer, Heffernan was paid off for a reported £10K and Chambers now has a career out of writing this one song. Never anywhere near number one, you forget.

6 Aqua - Barbie Girl
The bald bloke's making a solo album! Run for your lives!

5 Janet Jackson - Together Again
Odd cove, Janet - even leaving the whole nipple issue aside, that she's one of the world's biggest selling female singers ever just doesn't seem to register. Wikipedia quote of the day, on claims of a secret child from before her career took off: "Jackson has since denied this claim, but many people claimed that in a magazine, they remember when her stomach was big." Lynne Truss, where are you now?

4 All Saints - Never Ever
Last heard of being abused to no great effect by Girls Aloud in interviews, followed by the writer assuring that this quote-friendly cattiness for cattiness' sake is what makes GA such a great band, rather than people trying too hard to reinforce shitty stereotypes. Who really cared enough about the All Saints comeback to launch waves of attacks on them?

3 Various Artists - Perfect Day
It's not really explicitly about heroin, is it? Like There She Goes, which gets played at wedding receptions fair enough. The only other source of controversy about the Children In Need effort came from complaints from several sources about Michael Hutchence's cameo, even though it was actually the very much living at the time Evan Dando.

2 Teletubbies - Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!
The biggest selling single by a non-human group. Mind you...

1 Spice Girls - Too Much
Ho ho! You could argue this is the now renationalised five-piece version's least well remembered single, being largely released to tie in with the Spice World movie. Yeah, the people currently woodworming each other out in those Tesco adverts were once trusted as leads in a film.

Source (http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2007/12/only-chart-that-counted-1997.html)

Today in music history: Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - Somethin’ Stupid (2001)

December 20, 2007

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“Somethin’ Stupid” is a song written by C. Carson Parks and released by Carson and Gaile. It was released in 1967 by Frank Sinatra and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra which rose to #1 on the US Singles Chart and won the elder Sinatra his first Gold single.

The song was re-recorded for Robbie Williams’ 2001 album, Swing When You’re Winning, also released in that year. The duet with Nicole Kidman became Williams’ first Christmas Number-One single in the United Kingdom, and fifth as a solo artist, the single sold 98,506 copies in its first week and 366,000 copies over all earning a Silver Certification.

YouTube-Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNnI9_Buu4&NR=1)

Source (http://www.lifestylersgroup.com/blog/?p=863)

they looked great together in the video for this

Sharon Jones isn't shy about sharing what God gave her

Saturday, December 29 2007

SHARON JONES When Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings made their San Diego debut two years ago, this vintage R&B-celebrating band from Brooklyn was so low-profile it barely qualified as a sub-underground sensation.

Now, thanks to such famous fans-cum-collaborators as Amy Winehouse, Denzel Washington, Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright and They Might Be Giants, this independent-minded group is at last becoming a sensation in its own right.

"I'm just glad it's all sort of happening now," said Jones. "It's been 12 years and we've been working hard. You can say it's about time."

Jones, 51, is the vocal and visual focal point of the Dap-Kings, whose eight male members are nearly all at least 20 to 25 years younger than her. While hipsters have been buzzing about the band for several years, its recent rise to prominence can be attributed less to the group's lean, mean, proudly old-school style of soul and funk than to two notable admirers in London, Winehouse, 24, and her producer, Mark Ronson, 32.

Winehouse became a fan after hearing the 2002 album, "Dap Dippin' With Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings," and its more polished 2005 sequel, "Naturally," both released on the band's own Daptone Records label. The group, minus Jones, was hired by Ronson to perform with Winehouse on six of the 11 songs on her 2007 breakthrough album, "Back to Black," including the international hit "Rehab."
The Dap-Kings subsequently backed the gifted but troubled young English singer on her North American tour and was featured on all but one of the 14 songs on Ronson's solo album, "Version." The group, again minus Jones, has since worked with artists as diverse as Al Green and Robbie Williams.
But the Dap-Kings' charismatic lead singer hasn't been twiddling her thumbs during her downtime from the group.

Jones toured with ex-Velvet Underground leader Reed on his recent "Berlin" world tour and did recording dates with Wainwright and They Might be Giants. She is also featured in the upcoming Denzel Washington film, "The Great Debaters," which Washington both stars in and directs.

Accompanied by Alvin Youngblood Hart and The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jones performs in the film as a bluesy 1930s juke-joint singer and has a few spoken lines as well. She will be featured on at least a half-dozen songs on the soundtrack album, including the proto-R&B classic "Tight Like That" and the gospel chestnut "Two Wings Above My Head."

"When I first got on the set, Denzel knew I was nervous," Jones recalled. "So he came out, grabbed me, hugged me, and said: 'Sharon Jones!' Every time he called my name I would just shiver, but I had to be professional."

She giggled with a combination of girlish delight and professional pride.

"They asked Denzel in an interview how he liked me. And he said: 'She's real, she's honest, and I love her.'"

Washington's assessment of Jones also helps explain why she and her band are striking a big chord with young and seasoned listeners here and across Europe.

The taut, rhythmically infectious songs the Dap-Kings write and perform with Jones are steeped in the classic styles of Aretha Franklin and James Brown, circa their respective artistic primes in the 1960s and early '70s. The influence of such great Stax Volt Records artists as Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Mable John and the Bar-Kays is also evident on "100 Days, 100 Nights," the third and finest album yet by the Dap-Kings.

"I have a sound that James and Aretha had when they were in their 20s that I'm singing now in my 50s," Jones said.

"When I get off that stage, I'm sweating! I don't think about makeup and trying to be all cute, or about my feet being dirty or my pantyhose being ripped. I'm coming to give you a show and to give you the nitty-gritty. I don't need 15 background singers and dancers on stage to keep the entertainment up. I don't need some young girls behind me with with their chests sticking out. I'm enough on stage, me and the Dap-Kings.

"I'm not thinking about notes; I just open my mouth and it comes out. When the music is good, you just get out of the way and let it flow. We bring these songs to life and tell a story."

Jones' own story might be worthy of a feature film in its own right.

Born, like Soul Brother No. 1 Brown, in Augusta, Ga., Sheron Lafaye Jones grew up mostly in Brooklyn, N.Y., although she regularly returned to visit family members in the South. She began singing gospel music in church as a child, then branched out into funk and soul as a teenager.

Yet, while she had the vocal chops and onstage poise to make it as a professional, fame and fortune eluded her. The reasons had little to do with skill and everything to do with a society that places a premium on image over ability.

Or, as Jones put in an interview in late 2005: "When I started out in music back in the early 1970s, people told me I didn't have the 'look,' and that I was too dark-skinned. Then, once I got past 30, they told me I was too old and too fat. Well, I'm still dark. And I don't think I'm fat; I'm pleasantly plump."

She never stopped singing, be it in wedding bands or as an anonymous studio vocalist. To make ends meet, Jones held a variety of day jobs, including stints as an armored car guard, a sanitation worker and as a guard at Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail.

"I had a great time with the inmates, but I didn't belong there," she recalled of her tenure at Rikers Island.

"God gave me a gift. I always said to myself: 'People are not accepting me, but one day they'll accept me for my voice, not my color, or my height or my weight.' You have to keep the faith when God gives you something. That's my voice - and this is me."

Source (http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20071226071746949)

Dap-Kings played on Rudebox

I`ve heard a few their songs, love the sound.

Chris Tracy:

Top 3 Vegas Hot Spots you'd hit if you were out partying:
The Griffin, The Red Room and Your house!

The 3 best songs ever:
"Hummer" by Smashing Pumpkins, "Till next tuesday" by Vanessa and the O's and "The 80's" by Robbie Williams

What's the best place under the radar to grab grub in Vegas:
The Original Hash House (Not that froo-froo a go-go place) and Sushi Factory

What Vegas celebs would you most like to hang with:
Jay Cooper

If you had to chose just one person, food and drink for the rest of your life, what would they be?
My dog, my nana's chicken and dumplings and I want that purple stuff (Grape drink)

What celebrity would you most like to slap in the head and say "What the hell were you thinking!"
AXL ROSE... How do you ruin Guns & Roses

Who needs to be banished from Vegas and never be allowed to come back and why?
Jimmy Walker - Just say DYNOMITE!!!

Who is the coolest human being in Las Vegas?
Lonnie Hammergren

Words to live by:
You can't tell your story when you're gone

Turn ons:
Guitars, a great 2 minute song

Turn offs:
Pushy people

Favorite websites this month:
Vanessaandtheos.com, scratchie.com, funnyordie.com

98,5 KLUC - Las Vegas 1 Hit Music Station (http://kluc.com/Chris-Tracy-Bio/1519848)

KLUC is a commercial radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada, broadcasting on 98.5 FM. KLUC airs a rhythmic Top 40 music format.

Lenny Kravitz: It Is Time For a Love Revolution
Published Wednesday, February 06, 2008

By Jonathan Reyes

It’s no government conspiracy that the main undertaking of Lenny Kravitz’s sound is the revival of classic rock. Nearly twenty years ago Kravitz suggested Let Love Rule [Virgin] and on his eighth studio album he’s telling us It Is Time for a Love Revolution [Virgin] – so, it’s alright if you’re getting a case of déjà vu. Also, it’s been almost ten years since a Lenny Kravitz album, in its entirety, was a hit – the last one being 5 [Virgin], which spawned 3 hit singles. Two studio album releases after 5, with a hit here and there, he proved it didn’t matter.

Ironically the '60s and '70s rock and roll sounding It Is Time for a Love Revolution is packed with hopeful messages much like Barack Obama’s political platform and released during a time the country’s is deep in a war that’s immensely controversial. Kravitz seems set on bringing on the radar a type of passion and political activism that’s not been seen since the Vietnam days with “Back In Vietnam.” But even in its most stern moments Love comes across very whimsical and almost peppy. A mood primarily heard on “Dancin’ Til Dawn,” “Bring It On,” and “Love Love Love.”

“Good Morning” harbors a sonic resonance to “It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over” and Robbie Williams’s brand of British pop. Seemingly, The Godfather of Soul was channeled for “Will You Marry Me” as it brings to life a funky “Ugghhh!” that will immediately make you blurt, “Jame Brown!” The hippie rock messages of optimism are embodied in “If You Want It” and “Love Revolution.” The stellar “I’ll Be Waiting” does string in Lenny’s signature ballad style, but does it with a sense of freshness that other artists of his level do by being irrelevant.

It’ll be easy to hear that Lenny couldn’t wait to use these political tribulations to rock out and get his Led Zeppelin on, which makes this project fun to listen to. Plus, he’s got the musicianship chops to do whatever he well pleases; just check the guitar solo on “A Long and Sad Goodbye.” Still, it would have been pleasant had it made him just as focused on writing the profound lyrics It Is Time for a Love Revolution required for it to be a smash, if even less preachy. Guess baby smash for the already-made fans will have to do – nowadays, any smash is just as good.

Source (http://allhiphop.com/stories/alternativesreviews/archive/2008/02/06/19245957.aspx)

The bass and the drums and the ra ra ra

Basshunter makes it five weeks at the top of the UK singles chart as Now You're Gone is still the nation's best-selling single. It's pretty rare for dance records to spend so long at number one - the last one to do it was Eric Prydz's Call On Me back in 2005, but his run was interrupted by Robbie Williams' Radio. Run DMC vs Jason Nevins managed five consecutive weeks with It's Like That in 1998, but the last european dance act to do it was 2 Unlimited with No Limit, 15 years ago this week.

Source (http://popunlimited.blogspot.com/2008/02/bass-and-drums-and-ra-ra-ra.html)

Wet Wet Wet Make A Surprise Comeback

There's are certain inevitabilities you can expect every decade, and one of them is the pop comeback. To be sure, we've had plenty lately: Take That, Robyn, Spice Girls and, if rumors are to be believed, New Kids On The Block at some point. But Wet Wet Wet? Nearly 11 years since their last big hit, "Yesterday," the aging Scottish geezers slide onto the singles chart at #10 with "Weightless."

Wet Wet Wet initially had a nice 10-year run from the late '80s to late '90s, wherein they racked up two dozen chart hits and singer Marti Pellow did some grade A heroin. And surely no pop fan of a certain age can forget the five bazillion weeks they spent at #1 back in '94 with their cover of "Love Is All Around."

Anyway, "Weightless," the second single off Wet Wet Wet's Timeless album, is a pleasant enough ballad, if maybe a bit, uh, late '80s- or '90s-sounding. That said, it also sounds a tad Robbie Williams:

You Tube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L1fsLf8gqs&feature=related)

Source (http://chartrigger.blogspot.com/2008/02/wet-wet-wet-make-surprise-comeback.html)

I agree with that statement - it does...my little boy asked me if it was Robbie yesterday when he heard it on the radio.

Never really liked Marty...he's a bit full of himself...but the best of luck to them anyway

SHE'S AMY WINHOUSE

12th February 2008 By Nadine Linge

Triumphant Amy Wine-house is set to make millions from her amazing success at the Grammys.

The singer plans to cash in with a string of Stateside gigs after scooping five gongs at the prestigious bash.

After a mix-up over her visa, it emerged the Rehab star is allowed to travel to the US because she has no actual drugs convictions.

Amy, 24, stole the show at the Grammys in Los Angeles despite not being there, performing instead by satellite link-up.

Industry experts predict big things for Amy now – succeeding where artists such as Robbie Williams, 33, have failed and cracking the States.

One said: “America is Amy’s oyster. After these five awards she’s the hottest property in music – a tour could make her a fortune.”

Amy, who left rehab to prepare for her performance, looked stunned as it was announced she had won Record Of The Year for Rehab.

She stared straight ahead for a few seconds as the news sunk in before turning round and being pulled into a hug with backing dancers and parents Janis, 52, and Mitch, 57.

In her acceptance speech, Amy paid tribute to her folks and husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges linked to a pub brawl. The star also dedicated her award to London after the Camden fire ripped through her favourite pub, The Hawley Arms.

She said: “To my mum and dad. To my Blake, my Blake incarcerated.

“And for London, this is for London, because Camden Town ain’t burning down.”

The jazz/soul diva put on a polished performance of her hits Rehab and You Know I’m No Good, a marked difference to her previous shambolic and drunken shows.

She performed at 4am London time yesterday in front of a cabaret audience, wearing a short black dress.

As well as record of the year, Amy scooped awards for song of the year, best new artist, best pop vocal album for Back To Black and best female pop vocal.

She said: “I am so proud of this album. I put my heart and soul into it and it’s wicked to be recognised in this way.”

Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/29244/She-s-Amy-Winhouse/)

She did put on a good show and her backing singers and band were also fab.

Songs to Play on Valentines Day

Since we’re talking about lists of best to favourite songs, here’s another list that will surely complete your Valentines. Whatever the color of your Valentines, we all should still be thankful for the gift of music. Enjoy the best Valentine songs of all time with titles from A-Y.

All I Want to Do is Make Love to You - Heart
All Out Of Love - Air Supply
And I Love Her - The Beatles
And You Don’t Remember - Mariah Carey
Angels - Robbie Williams
As Long As You Love Me - Backstreet Boys
Baby I Love You - Jennifer Lopez
Because I Love You - Jewel
Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
Blessed - Christina Aguilera
Breaks My Heart - Monica
Breathless - The Corrs
But I Do Love You - Michelle Branch
Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
Change The World - Eric Clapton
Crazy For You - Madonna
Dangerously In Love - Destiny’s Child
Escape - Enrique Iglesias
Everything I Do, I Do It For You - Bryan Adams

For the complete list, please see Valentine Songs (http://www.everythingvalentinesday.com/love-songs.html)

WikiMusicGuide (http://blog.wikimusicguide.com/2008/02/10/songs-to-play-on-valentines-day/)

I prefer How Peculiar.. :rose:

Interesting list, thanks.

Ask Hilary

DEAR HILARY

Can listening to music help you work out?

Paula Radcliffe listened to Gwen Stefani, Robbie Williams and the Scissor Sisters when she ran to victory at the New York City Marathon, and research shows that listening to music while exercising can boost your performance by up to 20 per cent.

Any exercise which has a consistent action, such as running or cycling lends itself to musical accompaniment.

Listening to your fave tracks can also inspire you to keep up a good pace and provide a distraction.

OK! Magazine (http://ok.co.uk/body/view/417/Ask-Hilary/)

Ask Hilary

DEAR HILARY

Can listening to music help you work out?

Paula Radcliffe listened to Gwen Stefani, Robbie Williams and the Scissor Sisters when she ran to victory at the New York City Marathon, and research shows that listening to music while exercising can boost your performance by up to 20 per cent.

Any exercise which has a consistent action, such as running or cycling lends itself to musical accompaniment.

Listening to your fave tracks can also inspire you to keep up a good pace and provide a distraction.

OK! Magazine (http://ok.co.uk/body/view/417/Ask-Hilary/)


That is SO true http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a013.gif I never http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/sportlich/d038.gif without Robbie. I have a ‘’running play list’’. I could do with